The Phoenix Thunderbirds always seem to find a way to make the Waste Management Phoenix Open a bigger, better spectacle year after year. · The Valley's Mardi Gras on grass holds every PGA Tour attendance record. · And it's hard to top last year's story line, in which young Kyle Stanley rallied from an 8-shot deficit on Sunday to win his first PGA Tour event after blowing a 7-shot final-round lead just one week earlier to lose in San Diego at the Farmers Insurance Open. · But perhaps no tournament in Phoenix Open history can top the 1963 event. · This is the 50th anniversary of what arguably is the greatest Phoenix Open. It had everything.